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Reclaiming moral agency : the moral philosophy of Albert the Great

Title: Reclaiming moral agency : the moral philosophy of Albert the Great / Stanley B. Cunningham.
Author: Cunningham, Stanley B., 1934-
Publication: Washington, D.C. : Catholic University of America Press, ©2008.

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xii, 294 pages; 24 cm

Summary

"Reclaiming Moral Agency provides a comprehensive analysis of the moral philosophy of Albert the Great (1200-1280) the first and only such undertaking in English. It lays out what is, with rare exceptions, an unknown, ignored, or poorly understood aspect of Albert's humanism. It also fills in a major lacuna in both the history of medieval philosophy and the wider history of moral theory."--Jacket.

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Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. 277-287) and index.

Contents

Albert and the career of virtue theory -- Modern virtue theory as foreground to Albert's moral philosophy -- Albert's ethical treatises -- The significance of Albert's moral treatises in early-thirteenth-century moral philosophy -- Approaching the moral order -- Meta-ethical reflections on "moral science" and its procedures -- The metaphysics of the good -- The architecture of moral goodness -- The genesis of virtue : intrinsic causes -- The genesis of virtue : extrinsic causes -- The concept of virtue -- The organization of the virtues -- The passions -- Morality, obligation, and law -- Natural law -- Virtue's rewards -- Friendship -- Last ends and happiness -- Conclusion: Albertus redux.

ISBN

9780813215402
0813215404

LCCN

2008020524

OCLC

ocn227328363
227328363
SCSB-9465217

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Princeton University Library